Nehemiah 6:3

New American Bible - revised edition

I sent messengers to them with this reply: “I am engaged in a great enterprise and am unable to come down. Why should the work stop, while I leave it to come down to you?”

Cross References

Nehemiah 4:13

for I had said to the nobles, the magistrates, and the rest of the people: “Our work is scattered and extensive, and we are widely separated from one another along the wall;

Nehemiah 6:2

Sanballat and Geshem sent me this message: “Come, let us hold council together at Chephirim in the plain of Ono.” They were planning to do me harm.

Nehemiah 6:4

Four times they sent me this same proposal, and each time I gave the same reply.

Proverbs 14:15

The naive believe everything, but the shrewd watch their steps.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Anything you can turn your hand to, do with what power you have; for there will be no work, no planning, no knowledge, no wisdom in Sheol where you are going. The Time of Misfortune Is Not Known.

Matthew 10:16

“Behold, I am sending you like sheep in the midst of wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and simple as doves.

Luke 14:30

and say, ‘This one began to build but did not have the resources to finish.’

John 9:4

We have to do the works of the one who sent me while it is day. Night is coming when no one can work.